McCain wants Pentagon to run drone attacks

Sen. John McCain says the Pentagon - not the CIA - should oversee the use of drone attacks to go after suspected terrorists.

But the Arizona Republican, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he does not want to require President Barack Obama to get congressional approval before ordering drone attacks.

"What we really need to do is take this whole program out of the hands of the Central Intelligence Agency and put it into the Department of Defense, where you have adequate oversight, you have committee oversight, you have all the things that are built in as our oversight of the Department of Defense," McCain said on "Fox News Sunday."

"Since when is the intelligence agency supposed to be an air force of drones that goes around killing people?" McCain asked. "I believe that it has to be the Department of Defense."